The Sound of Strawberries

A few months ago I made a video of my ‘When You’re Frightened, Honey, Think Of Strawberries’ story, which appears in Not So Perfect (and originally appeared in Ink, Sweat and Tears).

Not being a film maker, and not knowing the first thing about making films, it didn’t turn out to be quite as wonderful as I’d hoped.

It’s been up on my Facebook page for a while now and I thought it might be interesting, and perhaps even fun, to share it here. So here it is.

What I Missed

Not much to report I’m afraid. I’ve been tweaking a couple of short stories and doing the post-cellulitis/post-bursitis shuffle. It is not as fun as it sounds.

Here’s a link I picked up from Sally, to a video of the reading night in Manchester I couldn’t go to last week (grumble, curse). My faves were (predictably) Jenn’s, and the one about voles.

Also, I really like this T-shirt, designed by Ross Robinson. So now you know.

Pics at last!
Finally! I finally found the charger for my camera batteries today and very diligently hopped to it and took a couple of snaps of the book, as I’ve been threatening for weeks.
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I’ve also just uploaded a video of me talking briefly about my novel here.
(You can also see a reading I did in November here).

The book I’m talking about can be ordered from here, as well as from all good retailers.

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My short story, A GIFT FROM THE LITTLE GREEN MAN will be appearing on the Bewildering Stories website on January 29th. I’ll post a link here when it’s up.
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I’m also very happy to have been made a Group Host on the fabulous writing website www.writewords.org.uk
Have a good weekend, all! And happy birthday Julia!

Brief One

A busy couple of days of writing for me, which although I’m happy with it, doesn’t make for the most exciting blog entry in the world. I had planned to record myself reading from my book, but as luck would have it my camera’s battery died as soon as I turned it on. It’s charged now, just as I’m about to head off to my writers’ group. Ho hum. Maybe tomorrow.

So, to make up for this post being a little dull, have a look at this. It made me laugh.

And another review

I really love getting reviews which have been written by children. They are who the book’s been written for so to get positive feedback from them is wonderful.

Here’s another. This time by 8 year old, CM.

“I met a Roman last night, what did you do?’ is entertaining and educational. It tells you about the Romans, the Celts, the Anglo-Saxons, the Vikings, the Normans and the Second World War. It has a character called Jack and every time he goes to sleep he travels back in time and meets a person like a Viking or a Roman. It is an interesting story and I recommend it to people who like a fun story. The chapter names make you want to read on and when you do you’re not disappointed. I like the choice of type face a lot. ‘I met a Roman last night, what did you do?’ is a brilliant story. I am glad to be writing a review for it.”

Thanks, CM. A really great review and really well written.

I’m trying to give my office a quick tidy so when I get back to writing I can do it in the best possible environment. So far, so good. And in an hour and a half I’m off to St John’s school to sign some books. Once I’ve done that it really will be the end of the hugely enjoyable Roaming Roman Book Tour.

As I said earlier, I’ll be posting my thoughts on that soon, as well as a video reading from the book.